The Grit Behind the Miracle

by Alice E. Sink

In 1944, the people of North Carolina faced a polio, or infantile paralysis epidemic which received attention throughout the United States. In The Grit Behind the Miracle, Alice E. Sink tells the extraordinary story of an emergency polio hospital that was built, equipped, and in operation within fifty-four hours in Hickory, North Carolina. Sink describes the role of Dr. H. C. Whims in orchestrating the building and staffing of the hospital,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761810862
• ISBN13: 9780761810865
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"